Lawrence Livermore Labs has released pictures showing, for the first time, the presence of actual planets outside of our solar system. Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, [...]
A Honduran man who had been deported twice before was sentenced in DC for the murder of a man in 2007. Hernan Melendez beat Andres Benitez to death with a baseball bat back then. He was tried and found guilty this past May and came up for sentencing this week. The sentence? He got 20 [...]
The IMF has joined the World Bank in the club of financial institutions that have had their computer systems compromised. FoxNews.com is reporting that the International Monetary Fund in DC discovered spyware on their systems but the IMF has been absolutely mum on what, if any, information might have been stolen. Or, rather, their official [...]
Not that I’m surprised, or anything, but it appears that Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is about to lose his Senate Judiciary Committee chairmanship. With the recent election’s gains, the Dems sure don’t need him as they did over the past couple of years when he was caucusing with them and gave them their 51-49 majority. Lieberman [...]
The lede on this story is perfect: It’s more than twice as old as the Pyramids, or even the written word. When it was built, saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths still roamed, and the Ice Age had just ended. The elaborate temple at Gobelki Tepe in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, is staggeringly ancient: [...]
